Parts of Ohio that can't get stations from top markets?

[the marv]

WAKS doesn't have anything on that frequency close by to really interfere with it. There is an r&b station in Lansing on 96.5 but I don't know how much dxing you get from Lansing.

 

[steve82655]

WAKS doesn't have anything on that frequency close by to really interfere with it. There is an r&b station in Lansing on 96.5 but I don't know how much dxing you get from Lansing.

I don't think there signal is very strong in Lansing because I haven't ever picked up 96.5 from Lansing it's always been Cleveland's 96.5 KISS FM!

 

[the marv]

That 96.5 in lansing only has 3000 watts due to it's closeness to Detroit's 96.3.

 

[steve82655]

Oh ok yeah that's not much power.

 

[XtraXtra]

No FM covers the entire state but WNCI might come closest.

Don't agree. WNCI is 175kw at about 600 ft HAAT. If you look at the patterns, WHKO has a much higher HAAT and similar if not greater reach.

 

[XtraXtra]

WTVN always came in during the day in Toledo. As a Matter of fact it and WRFD 880 from Columbus can be heard during the day in Detroit. Wrfd goes off at sunset for New York's WCBS and WTVN redirects their transmitter after 11 pm.

When I went to UT in the late 1990s, WTVN often came in better than WLW. I'd listen to Reds games on 610 from time to time, and the signal's improvement when the pattern change took place was very noticeable, like a balloon filling with air.

My understanding is that because the signal is directional, WTVN is effectively putting 20kw of signal into Toledo and Detroit. That must be why you have such a good signal at night.

For History buffs: Prior to 1953, WTVN's call letters were formerly WHKC, which was co-owned with WHK in Cleveland by the Plain Dealer. WTVN was purchased by Taft Broadcasting primarily for the purpose of moving the WTVN-TV transmitter from the LeVeque Building the WHKC tower.